tOO many alphabets tO speLL (spOil) a gENERAtiON.

I have always pondered over the identity, and motive, of my generation. Gen X, Gen Y, and now it's the Gen N! Too many cliches the media is using it seems. But i sincerely doubt the very genuineness and seriousness of these news paper- TV commercial- coined terms! In fact to be honest, i may sound very discouraging and 'orthodox', ours is a generation which gets carried away with every possible gust of breeze.

We think; yes we think, but on the lines which some very visible, but seemingly invisible forces want us to think. Our thinking is, and i am telling this from my personal experience notwithstanding any co-relation to popular theories, very much conditioned by the media which is around us. By media i don't only mean the TV commercials, or the ads, they are just a part of that construction which forces us to fit in the shapes it creates! The films which we watch every now and then, the kind of products we use- in fact these are inescapable, i agree- the necessities which we believe we have, never really judging their necessity, and even the Orkut and Facebook profiles we have or visit, create a pre-mediated network in which we operate. I am tempted to say that our thinking is just like the working of the Windows; while installing a program or a software we only follow the instructions, never ever trying to realise what makes the program run. In fact this is one aspect of the division of labour- we feel that it is not our job to understand the programing of the OS. Indeed it is true that given the complexities it is quite difficult, and i am not into it myself. It was just an analogy, an example to elucidate that we run like pre-programed softwares with options like RUN OK APPLY CANCEL ACCEPT DECLINE ! To draw an excellent example from The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, we are being a victim of obeah, that Caribbean custom where one's spirit is stolen. This in fact is the X, Y, N obeah! We are letting ourselves being renamed by alphabets and images which do not have any meaning once taken out of the aura of moving images, and disturbing music- all with stealthy agendas.

A leftist analysis of the glittering ads and media can very well show how our generation, by naming it GEN X Y N, is being depicted as one which yearns for interest without a bank account; one which wants a degree without hard work; one which believes in the 'inborn' genius, which it has in plenty; one which thinks that life is there in the pub, shopping malls, and one night stands. In short our generation is being made to believe that there is only one, and one one, way to success and that is THE SHORT CUT WAY! So we are no more responsible, no more committed to a cause, no more worried for a completion and perfection which is needed and which is very difficult to attain.

LO! arre yaar perfection ko improve karna kaafi mushkil hain. and we are born with it, JUST CHILL MAN! mentos hain naa? mentos khao dimaag ki batti jalao!

ARISE AWAKE AND SLEEP NO MORE. WITHIN EACH OF YOU THERE IS THE POWER TO REMOVE ALL WANTS AND ALL MISERIES! BELIEVE IN THIS AND THAT POWER WILL BE MANIFESTED! SWAMI VIVEKANANDA